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“Work that dazzles the eye, enchants the ear, and stimulates both the mind and heart…”

Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph ★★★★

Water

2007
A Filter and Lyric Theatre Hammersmith Co-Production, in association with Warwick Arts Centre


Imagine you looked out of the window one morning and saw jellyfish. No birds fluttering, just a sky full of gelatinous animals. Every now and then a shark or tuna glides noiselessly past. And everywhere…water. With the strange beauty of a dream Water cuts between powerful individual stories, exploring man’s desire to push himself to the limits in an increasingly unstable world of climate change. In Canada two half brothers clash over the legacy of their dead father. Meanwhile a young female special advisor tries to push through a deal at a political summit, whilst in Mexico a young Englishman prepares to dive the deepest freshwater cave in the world.

“The gripping narrative, beautiful soundscapes and knack of combining strong personal emotion with a political dimension all help to ensure that Water emerges as one of the most refreshing productions of the year.”

Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph ★★★★

“The influence of Complicite and Robert Lepage is strongly felt in Water… But the Filter folk have digested the lessons learnt from these great forebears with such insight, and built upon them with such creative bottle and considered bravura, that Water is a distinctive and distinguished piece of theatre. You emerge after an unbroken 90 minutes feeling that you have been therapeutically immersed in an absorbing, vivid and scrupulously coherent new world. Highly recommended.”

Paul Taylor, The Independent ★★★★

“Outrageously ambitious and gobsmackingly well-orchestrated drama…a triumph of both style and substance.”

Mark Powell, Metro ★★★★★